Sea level rise means fresh groundwater will increasingly become salty. Yat Li explains how his novel 3D-printed desalination ...

The world's growing population, changing climate, and issues with pollution have made getting fresh, drinkable water more difficult and costly than ever. Over 4 billion people globally are affected by ...

Humanity is messing with the Earth’s “salt cycle,” with potentially dangerous consequences for drinking water supplies, crop production, and ecosystems. That’s according to a new study published in ...

Unconventional methods for desalination could create more drinking water, help many industries to deal with problematic brines and increase lithium supplies for batteries. People have been separating ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Aquifers deep underground supply the drinking water for most of the capital region. As the freshwater is pumped out of the ground, salt water begins to creep closer to those ...

The vast majority—97 percent—of the earth’s water is salt water found in our oceans. Another two percent is stored in ice caps or glaciers. That leaves just one percent of all water on earth for ...

The wireline drilling core barrel is visible from the underside of the Liftboat Robert platform, from the Gaspee, a crew transport vessel, in the North Atlantic, Saturday, July 19, 2025. (AP ...

Researchers have created a new salt-blocking membrane that allows water to flow eight-times faster making desalination systems more efficient and cost-effective. When you drink a nice refreshing glass ...

Unsafe levels of salt water may reach many New Orleans-area drinking water intakes by mid-October, forcing officials to scramble for barges that will bring in fresh water from further up the ...

In April 2023, after one of the last spring snowstorms in Minneapolis, Annie Hejny visited a local business and was stunned by the thick layer of road salt spread over its parking lot. Hejny, an ...

Efforts to combat the drinking water crisis in the greater New Orleans area caused by a long-lasting drought in Louisiana appear to be working. State and local officials have been sounding the alarm ...